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WINTER <strong>2022</strong> | 21<br />
something herself.<br />
Europe was the first stop in her journey<br />
in writing the book because she was<br />
familiar with European names. Barozzi<br />
concluded information she gathered<br />
over the internet into many files, categorized<br />
country by country.<br />
“A very funny page in this book is<br />
that I found something really interesting<br />
on the Dutch names,” said Barozzi.<br />
In her book at the end of the session<br />
of Dutch names, a page of funny<br />
Netherlands history showed that it was<br />
widely believed that when Napoleon’s<br />
army occupied the Netherlands, they<br />
forced Dutch people to adopt surnames<br />
to register Dutch people for tax collecting<br />
purposes.<br />
The Dutch protested this by choosing<br />
hilarious names and believed this<br />
surnames adoption to be temporary.<br />
The hilarious names include Aarsman<br />
(assman), Doodeman (dead man),<br />
Onderbroek (underpants), Pannenkoek<br />
(pancake) etc. However, the names<br />
stuck with Dutch people, and they<br />
began to ignore the meaning.<br />
Her interest in onomastics has grown<br />
to the East part of the globe. Barozzi’s<br />
next book will be focusing on the history<br />
of Asian surnames.<br />
Over the years, her interest expanded<br />
to the bearers of any unusual last name,<br />
whether she knew them or not. She<br />
was fascinated by surname patterns in<br />
different cultures and often searched for<br />
sources that might satisfy her curiosity.<br />
She found multiple books and articles<br />
on surnames specific to certain countries,<br />
but what she really wanted was<br />
an atlas of surnames. So, she decided to<br />
create one.<br />
Barozzi hopes her book will be informative<br />
as well as entertaining, a guide<br />
as much for onomastics professionals<br />
and genealogists, as for casual readers<br />
and those curious to learn if their<br />
names may harken back to an ancestor<br />
known as a “clay marble baker,” “wise<br />
one” or “rooster,” or perhaps to a tree or<br />
blackberry grove inhabited by the family<br />
centuries ago. Thanks for the author,<br />
genealogy fans now have a new rabbit<br />
hole to scurry down in their quest to<br />
seek their origins and past.<br />
“What Kind of Name is That? European<br />
Surnames: Meanings and Traditions”<br />
is available in paperback and on Kindle<br />
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